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  1. Bug #86921
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Comment 4 for bug 86921

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I prepared a new apt upload that will explicitly exclude all direct dependencies from meta-packages from being marked as automatic installs. This should fix a lot of the confusion seen here.

In addition to this I have attached a fixup script that will mark the current direct dependencies of installed meta-packages as manual installed. It will make a copy of your old state file in /var/lib/apt/extended_states.fixup-save so if anything goes wrong, you can still copy it back.

The script requires the latest python-apt to work.

Please test it and let me know if that fixes the issues at hand.

Thanks,
 Michael